The Cash Clown
We’re 5 days away from the Spin stopping here, no more guys are just getting ready for the season, guys are bored with ST, the velocity will come with adrenaline, and my favorite, so and so has always been a slow starter
In many lines of work if your a slow starter, your out of a job in a week. When you make millions of dollars to play a sport there should be no such thing as the aforementioned excuses 2 weeks before the regular season starts, you’ve had a month to shake off the rust
You take 2 weeks to a month off after October and get your ass back to work, like the rest of us..
Hal Steinbrenner wants desperately to cut payroll, unfortunately he wants to cut it cold turkey so he didn’t want to embellish his rotation despite his Ace pitching with a a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament, his #2 only pitching 76.1 innings in the last 3 seasons, his #3 being about as effective as a baby aspirin tackling a massive hangover, his # 4 giving up the most hits in the NL last season, and his #5 who couldn’t crack most teams #8 before getting hurt on the first play of his very first spring training game
With Beano Capuano sidelined, Adam Warren has been taken out of a job he was good at and handed a job he is barely competent doing, for all intents and purposes he got the gig because he was the best of the worst possible choices
Hal bestowed kudos on his GM for doing a good job this off season! Yes he did a decent job, cutting payroll, which was priority number 1 for the self described Financial Geek who is stuck with a plethora of bad contracts and older broken down players on the back end of their careers
In a effort to adhere to his boss’ wishes Cashman needed to trade his best back up catcher for a LH reliever who had a stellar 2013 season, but had trended the wrong way in 2014. They found enough peripherals in Justin Wilson’s metrics that proved to them maybe he was pitching into bad luck, but the Pirates, a playoff team with a limited budget felt he was expendable despite his affordable contract of $556 K and 3 years of team control
In an effort to help the rotation, Cashman then traded two years of a professional player, Martin Prado, for a live arm that had not lived up to his potential, so the Marlins gave up on Nate Eovaldi.. This was more about getting a starter for $3.3M then anything else. Eovaldi had a .300 winning percentage, gave up 24 more hits ( the most in the NL, 223) then innings pitched, and had a below league K / 9 average of 6.4
I will admit Cashman brought in a legitimate backup ( Jones) to the fragile Teixeira in the Prado / Phelps trade, in essence the Yanks are getting two players for the price of Prado, yes that’s no doubt a financial geek’s wet dream…
The biggest negative buzz after yet another lack luster offensive ST game, a 3-0 loss to the Rays relief corp where the Yanks picked up 4 hits, none of them for extra bases, wasn’t focused on this game but the Tanaka effort the day before against a predominately Double and Triple A Twins squad
Hall of Famer Pedro Who’s Your Daddy Chump Martinez
made some headliners with his take that Tanaka looks like damaged goods.. Hate to say it, but El Pollo is right, enough with the we just wanted to get through ST crap, Tanaka isn’t even close to the pitcher we saw in the beginning of his 2014 season
His fast ball velocity is down from 94 to 89, he touched 91 / 92 maybe twice vs the Twins and in that sequence you saw what his M.O. should be, get ahead in the count with fast balls,then bury the batter with the fork ball, except he needs to dial it to 94, 91 ain’t gonna cut it
Your 1 start from the season’s opening day outing, if your not airing it out in that game then something is wrong.. I can only buy the weather will be cooler and the adrenaline will be flowing so much, Tanaka hasn’t aired it out once all Spring
Private Ryan is once again on the DL,
Prado is gone, Noonan isn’t a big league player, and Pirela has canaries singing him bedtime lullabies, so who knows how long that will take to clear up, so Cashman may have to make a default move, against his better judgement, which isn’t an awe-inspiring experience, as a GM Cashman has been a good director of spending
Hal’s GM will be forced to bring up Rob Refsynder, unless he does the unthinkable and finds a dumpster dive utility player that has been cut by another team to cover for Ryan
Refsynder showed he might be a decent offensive player, but do the Yanks want to sit him on the bench waiting to sub for Drew who will have to sub for Gregorius? And who plays back up 3rd base, Arod?
We should know if Gregorius’ wrist is damaged goods here in the next few days, and while it looks like Refsynder could make the squad, where are you playing him? Is it smart to have a one position player as your utility guy?
Do the Yanks want to start Refsynder at 2nd base and keep Drew as the utility man? He better start to take reps at 3rd base then, or we can hope A-Rod can fill in 1 day a week for Headley
It won’t hurt to have Refsynder another RHB in the everyday line up, and I wouldn’t worry about starting his clock, we’re not talking Kris Bryant or Mike Trout here, but wouldn’t it be something if Refsynder made us forget about Cano, at least on offense?
The fact Cashman doesn’t think he’s ready is actually reassuring, after all the face to Cashman’s team is Brett Gardner, you really have to be kidding me
This last minute pick up from Houston for ss help is a good move but made out of desperation.
I truly despise Cashman,!
He really needs firing,, and a friggin beating,,
bubbaband
April 2, 2015 at 8:44 am
Beat him first,then fire him!! There will be players released now that spring training is almost over,they probably will pick some players up,maybe even make a last minute trade. I never heard of Gregorio Petit but you know things are not going well when the Yankees get a reject from the Astros.
dallasbomber7
April 2, 2015 at 10:09 am
Cashman is a full fledged dumpster diver, as evidenced by his taste in girlfriends.
Ryan shouldn’t be on the team anyway. More millions pissed away. Drew is shakier than Tanaka’s elbow.
Brett The Face (as Sal so rightly calls him) is cooking and shaving with his bat in a commercial. Likely, he’s better doing those things with it than hitting a baseball.
noogerguy
April 2, 2015 at 10:54 am
hahaha the Yanks must of hired ESPN to produce that Brett the Face ad noogsie…that’s like making the bass player in Aerosmith the star of the band, who is the bass player in Aerosmith BTW?
Cashman said they were lucky to get him Big D lol….
Every move the Yanks made this off season was out of desperation donny, so yes good eye this was another one
none of the yanks can hit, most of the players are at Double and Triple A, so Petit should fit right in
Too bad it wasn’t the Petit from the Giants, looks like Martin and Rogers made the 25 man cut.. good chance Murphy goes back to AAA too
I know mosconie went for the 2 for 1 special at Heidi’s Wax and Clean.. I just hope he didn’t marry one of them and he writes us from Las Vegas with a selfie attached
sal
April 3, 2015 at 6:33 am
Let Beltran and Gardiner go and let Aaron Judge play NOW !
bubbaband
April 3, 2015 at 8:11 am